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News China plans to challenge World Trade Organization findings on tariff violations
China plans to challenge World Trade Organization findings on tariff violations
Deirdre Jurand
July 22, 2008 11:47:00 am

The China Ministry of Commerce said Tuesday that Chinese officials disagreed with and could challenge a World Trade Organization (WTO) panel report which states that the country illegally taxes and...

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News ACLU challenges Alabama felony disenfranchisement law
ACLU challenges Alabama felony disenfranchisement law
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 22, 2008 11:23:00 am

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit Monday in Alabama's Montgomery County Circuit Court, challenging an Alabama law that prevents some convicted felons from voting. A 2003 amendment to the state...

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News Military law could change Supreme Court ruling on death penalty for child rape
Military law could change Supreme Court ruling on death penalty for child rape
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 22, 2008 10:38:00 am

Louisiana state prosecutors on Monday petitioned the US Supreme Court to reconsider its June decision in Kennedy v. Louisiana , where it found that imposing the death sentence for child rape where the...

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News Serbia plans to extradite Karadzic to face trial for war crimes
Serbia plans to extradite Karadzic to face trial for war crimes
Devin Montgomery
July 22, 2008 10:34:00 am

A Serbian prosecutor said on Tuesday that the government plans to extradite Bosnian Serb leader and former fugitive Radovan Karadzic to the Hague to face an International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)  war crimes indictment ....

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News Myanmar objects to monitoring powers of new ASEAN human rights body
Myanmar objects to monitoring powers of new ASEAN human rights body
Mike Rosen-Molina
July 22, 2008 10:30:00 am

Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win has called for the newly-established Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to refrain from interfering in the internal affairs of ASEAN member nations. The comments, made during a Monday meeting to organize...

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News Comcast threatened with legal action over child pornography availability
Comcast threatened with legal action over child pornography availability
Deirdre Jurand
July 22, 2008 09:28:00 am

New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo wrote in a letter Monday that his office would bring legal action within five days against Comcast Cable Communications unless the company agrees to block child pornography...

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News Thailand negotiations provide no resolution to Cambodia border dispute
Thailand negotiations provide no resolution to Cambodia border dispute
Deirdre Jurand
July 22, 2008 08:28:00 am

Thai and Cambodian officials agreed Monday that neither country will use military force against the other in their dispute over the border area surrounding the Preah Vihear temple , over which both countries claim ownership. The meeting was...

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News Hamdan not entitled to Fifth Amendment protections: military judge
Hamdan not entitled to Fifth Amendment protections: military judge
Andrew Gilmore
July 22, 2008 08:15:00 am

Navy Capt. Keith Allred, the judge presiding over the military commission trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan , ruled Monday that Hamdan is not entitled to the protection against self-incrimination under the Fifth Amendment...

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News War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic captured after 13 years
War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic captured after 13 years
Abigail Salisbury
July 21, 2008 06:43:00 pm

Serbian President Boris Tadic announced Monday evening that Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic had been captured earlier Monday by Serbian security forces. Karadzic is accused of war crimes stemming from his alleged involvement in...

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News France parliament votes to amend constitution
France parliament votes to amend constitution
Andrew Gilmore
July 21, 2008 05:32:00 pm

The French parliament voted to amend the French Constitution on Monday, passing the amendment package by the necessary three-fifths vote of legislators from both the French National Assembly and Senate . The amendments [draft bill,...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Rosenbergs convicted of espionage

On March 29, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were convicted of passing US atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. The couple was sentenced to death on April 3 under the Espionage Act of 1917, 18 U.S.C 794. They were then executed two years later on June 19, 1953 in New York State's Sing Sing Prison. View the FBI's files on the Rosenbergs.

British parliament passed act creating Canada

On March 29, 1867, the British Parliament passed the British North America Act, a constitutional document creating a united Dominion of Canada. It went into effect on July 1 that year.

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